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Communication

The Probation Question

(The CRIMSON invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate.)

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:--

The Administrative Board has voted recently to place on probation several men whose grades were satisfactory, for exceeding the "cut" limit of one "cut" a week. It seems to me unfair to inflict the penalty of probation on men whose grades average C or better because they may have taken two or three cuts a week. They are guilty of negligence in a petty way. But should they suffer the same penalty as those who through sheer neglect of work or lack of intelligence have failed to get their two C's and a D? I think not. Why not make the punishment fit the crime and forbid any cutting among the offenders? HENRY W. ABBOT JR. '25.

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